Norman Twell                                                                                          Updated:  14 JAN 2022

Airman: e777746.htm Surname: Twell Init: N Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p347.htm Plane: LAN PB180 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB180 i Østersøen eller den sydlige del af Øresund. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"382 RAF bombefly bombede de centrale dele af Kiel, og 17 Lancasters gik tabt. PB180 gik tabt over Østersøen, og liget af flight engineer
F/Sgt Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft drev i land ved Fællesskov rev (omkring her) den 15. september 1944. Tre dage senere blev han begravet på
Lyderslev kirkegård." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Sergeant Norman Twell, 20 år, var søn af Fred og Alice Twell, Hull, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 223 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN PB180 er begravet i Lyderslev, 1 i Malmø, Sverige, 2 i Kiel, Tyskland og 3 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN PB180 crashed in the Baltic Sea or the southern part of the Øresund. All of the crew perished. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"382 bombers from the RAF bombed the central parts of Kiel and 17 Lancasters were lost. PB180 was lost over the Baltic Sea.
On 15 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft drifted ashore at Fællesskov Rev (about here).
Three days later he was buried in Lyderslev Churchyard." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Sergeant Norman Twell, 20, was the son of Fred and Alice Twell, of Hull, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 223, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 256.  

1 airman from LAN PB180 is buried in Lyderslev, 1 in Malmø, Sweden, 2 in Kiel, Germany and 3 airmen have no known grave.

See Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * No. 7 Squadron RAF -Wikipedia * 7 Squadron Association * IBCC has operational details at each airman.
Lancaster III PB180 MG-F took off from RAF Oakington at 20:03 on 26 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.